Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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Constructing Futures: Outlining a Transhumanist Vision of the Future and the Challenge to Christian Theology of its Proposed Uses of New and Future Developments in Technology [PDF]
Transhumanists arc committed to re-evaluating the entire human condition and offering proposalsfor transcending mortality, principally by augmenting the human body with mechanical components or by transferring the human mind into intelligent hyper ...
Jackson, Darrell R.
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer +3 more
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Transhumanism and New Challenges in Political Theories [PDF]
Extended AbstractIntroduction: Transhumanism, which emerged in the 1950s with Julian Huxley’s ideas, is an intellectual and philosophical movement that seeks to enhance human physical, mental, and ethical capacities through advanced technologies such as ...
Matin Anjomrooz, Mohammad Khezri
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Transhuman and posthuman – on relevance of "cyborgisation" on legal and ethical issues [PDF]
I will discuss issues which can be seen as taken strictly from the science fiction literature. Nonetheless, I would like to demonstrate that those issues not so far from now will have a big influence on the ethical discourse and also the law and social ...
Michalczak, Rafał
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality
ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
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«The Future of Humans in a Post-Human World»: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson's 2019 novel, is a mirror transposition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The novel adumbrates a posthuman or transhuman life to be lived “forever as brain emulation” (Winterson 2020, 104).
Fausto Ciompi
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Anatomy as embodied resistance in an age of digital abstraction
Abstract Amid the accelerating integration of digital technologies in the health professional education, anatomy education with an emphasis on engagement with real human bodies can provide a crucial counterweight to digital abstraction. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and algorithm‐driven medicine may lead to the intrinsic value of embodied ...
Claudia Krebs, Sabine Hildebrandt
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Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies
This paper examines transhuman technologies that seek to eradicate disability - primarily prostheses and implants. While most would agree that disability denies individuals the same quality of life as those deemed “abled,” this eradication ultimately ...
David-Jack Fletcher
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Left Accelerationism, Transhumanism and the Dialectic: Three Manifestos
Left accelerationism and the transhuman subject who embodies this movement’s political potential have multivalent relations to Marxism. Whilst recent interventions such as Srnicek and Williams’ #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and ...
Paddy Gordon
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